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The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.

On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.